You're one of those who believe truth is what endures some sort of test? Worth is what does not endure, and worth is truer than truth. Time, of which ...
Probably the most poignant moment in all of Plato is when Socrates' friend, Phaedo, despairs of the argument. Socrates warns of becoming 'logophobes'....
As to the ACA (which covers reproductive rights). What if Congress passed a law defining what punishment apply to convicted criminals, and superseding...
The argument that clinched Roe vs Wade was the description of protected rights as covering those "born". About all I can offer is a cultural value est...
This is not a fight over babies. It is a fight over terms. Thirty years ago I struggled with this problem, the origin of shared terms and rational for...
I'll say it just once more, the life of the unborn is irrelevant. The mother's body is hers, and hers alone. And the law has an absolute duty to promo...
There is a case still steaming in the record about a charity hospital waived the requirement to provide reproductive coverage on non-member employees....
https://iep.utm.edu/sqr-opp/ The square of opposition is a chart that was introduced within classical (categorical) logic to represent the logical rel...
Why are you so afraid of your own mind??? It's like you have to hold onto the rail for fear of falling off of reality. Plato's is a world of human cha...
The wording of the establishment clause is clearly meant to prohibit establishing churches as sovereign over anyone, though its supporters may have be...
Let me put that more strongly. Is a church a separate sovereign with sovereignty rights over its membership and employees the Constitution not only pr...
Picked up the wrong URL, Try again: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/22/1986768/-10-Tragic-Consequences-of-Restrictive-Abortion-Laws Is the "f...
Apparently you are able to perceive the perceptions of others. Talk about a nice trick! Thing is, it is hard to reconcile that ability with your "indi...
The context of what you regard as certain fact, however justifiably, is a lexicon of terms, including formal terms, that are not factually understood....
You're rubber, I suppose? What gives anti-Plato folks like you the this idea he was a mystic?? Aristotle himself admits he didn't have a clue what Pla...
Do you really suppose I didn't catch your meaning? You think you've got me up a stump. But it's what numbers don't count that engenders truth among us...
You know how many beans make five, do you? Maybe, like with Baldric, it's a very small casserole? Why is it we expend so much effort to convince each ...
Please stop referencing extraneous sources. Table stakes please! But, if I must, please read 'The Analyst', by George Berkeley. As a mathematical term...
Must everything be black or white with you? I never said logic is a complete failure, only that it assumes a hermeticity not supported by its argument...
Factional support does not have to be standing immediately behind you, ask anyone ever subjected to sexism or racism. By the way, women are much more ...
A belief is much more than a personal opinion if there is convention backing it up. Convention can never prevail so broadly it is beyond question. And...
Well, I don't see the point in refuting all this. It just appeared as I posted the above. My answer to the quoted passage here is that you're lack of ...
Speaking English, eking is just getting by. This discussion is eking. Making stuff up and calling it Platonic doesn't make it so. Nowhere does Plato r...
Socrates doesn't say he knows nothing, he says he knows that he knows nothing. He is not unsure. Does being unsure have voice? Or does only knowing ha...
Another thing, we do not revert from nature to morality because religious law tells us what is moral, we suppress our natural impulses because we are ...
The issue of freedom vs natural law is a red-herring. It came up because the Catholic church uses natural law to argue their way from conception to vi...
Addendum, Do I detect a Hobbesean view? That we are savages? That myth was created to rationalize the most atrocious oppression and dispossession. It ...
I think the point moot because there is a necessary distinction between what is deemed morality (mostly erroneously!) and law. For instance, how would...
That's just lame! How many single fathers are there? I think you'll find the numbers are a bit lop-sided on that one! And no one is required to raise ...
The reason to drop the quantifier is because it instills false belief. Also, it seems to disprove what is true. Isn't anything 'beyondly' immortal? Is...
Who's talking about responsibility? I thought the issue was access or prohibition. Under what circumstances are males denied liberty or required to sa...
For a few seconds we can only be completely selfish, perhaps the most selfish possible. But that only means the rest of the time is an opportunity to ...
Could'a fooled me! Damascious seems to have eluded my notice, though I'm sure I've come across something of him somewhere, I make a pretty thorough ov...
Aristotle illustrates your point by saying: Socrates is a man All men are Mortal Therefore: Socrates is mortal. I assume you subscribe to this. But, e...
Spoken like Zeno, Parmenides' shill. Both your comments are question begging. The law of contradiction does not prove itself. I've said over and over,...
Does the First Amendment protect religious liberty, or religious authority? Is it really a proper function of government to support the imposition of ...
An end of metaphysics? Don't think so! If Kant weren't full of holes Hegel would not have had anything to add. The epistemic and the formal are incohe...
Pato's semantics appears in the Craytalus. There he compares onomatopeoia to etymology as sources of significations of terms. As usual, of course, the...
Free will again! Freedom is not a possession, it is a willing dispossession. The transformation of terms is not something we try to impose on each oth...
First of all, in Plato's time the engine of language was the abstract character of gods and heroes. Not that these were real entities active in the wo...
Yes, it is possible convince yourself it is possible to create what you call a "determinate" language, but it is demonstrably false to suppose that is...
I'm warming to the contrast between autonomic and autonomous systems. The autonomic does not respond to real changes, and if reality is rigor interrup...
Who says? I mean, which character, and where does Socrates take the discussion from there? In Phaedo, Socrates is spending his final hour doing what h...
Where in Plato does he say this? Where does he claim the telos as the source of or navigator to truth? What is purpose? Propositum. Enduring time pros...
How dense can we be? Language is not in isolation. A speaker is never alone in the act of it. Language is as much listening as speaking. It is not abo...
Subatomic particles are not semantic. Quantum values are not numerical. But there is no ambiguity to them either. They are quite decisively neither/no...
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